Canonical gauge coupling unification in the standard model with high-scale supersymmetry breaking

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Huo, Yun Jie ^a   Li, Tianjun ^a,b   Nanopoulosb, Dimitri V ^b,c,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HOUSTON ADVANCED RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

Author keywords

Compactification and String Models; GUT; Higgs Physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053185382     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2011)003     Document Type: Article

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